You can now listen to the studio version of “The Afterman” care of Rolling Stone.

From Rolling Stone:

“A decade after Coheed and Cambria released their debut album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, frontman Claudio Sanchez continues the band’s epic sci-fi story with The Afterman: Ascension, the first part of a two-album tale that furthers the group’s Amory Wars comic book storyline. Title track “The Afterman” features Sanchez’s commanding falsetto and the band’s intricately layered instrumentation. However, despite the grandiose scale of Amory Wars, Sanchez found inspiration for the double album on a much more personal level: the death of his wife’s close friend.”